Tag: Organized

Having a partner you can count on helps with personal organization

Florida storm clouds
Love flourishes no matter the weather

 

Having a partner you can count on helps with personal organization. We know this.

But not until serious illness or injury is it brought home in a way that literally brings us to our knees.

Cheryl, thank you for:

  • driving me to hospital for surgery
  • staying for hours to take me home
  • representing our Family at Mike’s Celebration of Life
  • mowing the grass
  • cooking
  • fetching
  • cleaning
  • caring
  • supporting
  • encouraging

This is just in the past few days.

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Was organized enough this morning to do this

Breakfast grill at a busy Disney Restaurant
Her High School friend was already there and cooking breakfast (a subtly different pic than yesterday’s post)

 

Was organized enough this morning to do this. To rearrange the morning to allow for a visit to our friend’s house following her email about her husband’s sudden death. (Another friend had sent us an email three days prior asking for prayers – Mike had been admitted to the hospital – but it went to an email address we no longer use)

Sent a reply offering suggestions on how I could help.

Without a reply back, and now 9am, I drove to their home.

Knocking on her door, was afraid because I didn’t know what to say or how to say it. Nor what to do and when to do it.

So we just hugged. Sat down. And talked.

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Was organized enough to surprise two friends

McDonald's to go bag and two Marriott room keys
Do unto others

 

Was organized enough to surprise two friends after the track workout. Jogged to McDonalds, returning from the track, for some egg McMuffins to go. Made it back to Marriott in plenty of time to eat and shower.

Slid a room key – with concierge lounge (free breakfast buffet) access – under each of my friend’s doors and texted them this photo with a note.

Was organized enough, and not in such a hurry, to think this nice surprise through.

We know this.

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To become decently organized is a blessing and a curse

The New Orleans Hyatt Regency interior atrium from the 25th floor
The New Orleans Hyatt Regency must be extraordinarily organized, or they’d go out bankrupt

 

We are not born organized. As infants, we rely on others for parental care – for our very survival – because we are helpless.

As we grow older, we must slowly and surely break the chains of having others think and do for us. We must find our own way.

Most of us never attack this opportunity soon enough, hard enough, and long enough, to be transformational.

It is what it is.

But it doesn’t have to be permanent.

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